Wrecking Ball
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Wrecking Ball is a 2012 studio album by American rock musician Bruce Springsteen that blends rock, folk, and gospel influences to address themes of economic hardship and social justice.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wrecking Ball canonical | 26 |
| Wrecking Ball Tour | 3 |
| Wrecking Ball (Bruce Springsteen album) | 1 |
| Wrecking Ball (deluxe edition) | 1 |
| Wrecking Ball (standard edition) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T312907 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wrecking Ball Context triple: [Bruce Springsteen, notableWork, Wrecking Ball]
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A.
Fallin'
"Fallin'" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys that served as her breakout debut single and became one of her signature songs.
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B.
So Gone
"So Gone" is an R&B song best known as a 2003 hit single by Monica, produced by Missy Elliott and Kanye West.
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C.
No One
"No One" is a Grammy-winning R&B ballad by American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys that became one of her signature hits worldwide.
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D.
On Fire
On Fire is a nonfiction book by Naomi Klein that explores the climate crisis and advocates for transformative, justice-centered solutions such as a Green New Deal.
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E.
How Can I Blame You
"How Can I Blame You" is a song featured on the album "Darkness and Light."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wrecking Ball Target entity description: Wrecking Ball is a 2012 studio album by American rock musician Bruce Springsteen that blends rock, folk, and gospel influences to address themes of economic hardship and social justice.
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A.
Fallin'
"Fallin'" is a soulful R&B ballad by Alicia Keys that served as her breakout debut single and became one of her signature songs.
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B.
So Gone
"So Gone" is an R&B song best known as a 2003 hit single by Monica, produced by Missy Elliott and Kanye West.
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C.
No One
"No One" is a Grammy-winning R&B ballad by American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys that became one of her signature hits worldwide.
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D.
On Fire
On Fire is a nonfiction book by Naomi Klein that explores the climate crisis and advocates for transformative, justice-centered solutions such as a Green New Deal.
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E.
How Can I Blame You
"How Can I Blame You" is a song featured on the album "Darkness and Light."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Wrecking Ball Description of subject: Wrecking Ball is a 2012 studio album by American rock musician Bruce Springsteen that blends rock, folk, and gospel influences to address themes of economic hardship and social justice.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Wrecking Ball (Bruce Springsteen album)
this entity surface form:
Wrecking Ball Tour
this entity surface form:
Wrecking Ball Tour
this entity surface form:
Wrecking Ball Tour
this entity surface form:
Wrecking Ball (standard edition)
this entity surface form:
Wrecking Ball (deluxe edition)